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The technology sector has been one of the largest growth sectors in the market for the last 20 years. No aggressive or moderate portfolio should lack an allocation to it. The sector is comprised of several sub-sectors, including semiconductors, communications equipment, computer hardware and t...
By Sharon Fay Global equities posted their first quarterly decline in two years during a volatile first quarter. Growing concerns about rising rates, trade wars and regulation in the technology sector will require a new mindset for investors. The MSCI World Index fell by 2.3% in the firs...
Key points Recent weakness in technology stocks reflects rising risks, but we see strong earning growth driving future returns. U.S.-China trade tensions hogged the headlines once again, spurring big swings across global markets. An agreement on NAFTA could be unveiled next week, while...
For the inaugural issue of The Chemist's CEF Report (September 2016), describing the background and rationale of the Report, please click here . This edition uses data taken from the close of March 1. Previous editions of the Report can be searched using the keyword "cefrep". Methodology...
This is one of the most talked about subjects I see regarding CEFs. What difference does it make whether I buy a fund that trades at a discount or at a premium? In the long run, they all seem to stay at roughly the same valuation for months if not years. Fair enough. I see the logic in that...
You literally can't make this stuff up. The PowerShares NASDAQ-100 ( QQQ ) has been in free-fall lately but don't tell that to the owners of the Nuveen NASDAQ-100 Dynamic Overwrite fund ( QQQX ) who bid up their fund 0.6% yesterday despite another NAV drop of -1.1%, pushing the market pric...
Members of Yield Hunting requested this analysis and received it a few weeks ago The technology sector has been one of the largest growth sectors in the market for the last twenty years. No aggressive or moderate portfolio should lack an allocation to it. The sector is comprised of several...
Back in the 1990s, critics of the dot-com bubble used to point out that the global economy depended on the US stock market and the US stock market depended on, like, ten Internet stocks with negative aggregate earnings. The resulting inverted financial pyramid was, the critics claimed, very ea...
While most income investors do not maintain a huge allocation to CEFs due to a variety of risks, income inefficiency, and accounting quirks, a peripheral eye should be kept on them due to value dislocations that can suddenly appear. Despite the complexity, CEFs can provide investors an easy, l...
The Weekly CEF Roundup will be put out at the start of each week to summarize recent price movements in closed-end fund [CEF] sectors in the last week, as well as to highlight recently concluded or upcoming corporate actions on CEFs, such as tender offers. Most of the information has been so...
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BlackRock Advisors, LLC released today share repurchase activity for certain BlackRock closed-end funds (the “Funds”) during the quarter ended June 30, 2022. The Funds have authorized open market share repurchase programs (the “Repurchase Programs”) pursuant ...
Today I want to show you how to build a “three-click” income portfolio that gives us three things every income investor craves, especially these days: Big discounts on our investments. Big dividends, with a 10.6% yield averaged out across three funds. Wide di...
With 2022 likely to be a wild ride, we income investors are going to lean on two key advantages. In doing so, we’ll secure 7% dividends no matter what the broader markets do. First, we can secure this “head start” by January 1 by purchasing funds that yield 7%, on a...